Barge cleanup

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month.

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

A crew employed by Garland and Garland Marine Construction, a local dock building company, remove a barge from the Gordon River and place the pieces on flatbed trucks in an empty lot on U.S. 41 on Thursday. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the water to be cleaned and repainted. Garland and Garland clean their barges every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff

Erich Fahringer, top, a crew leader for Garland and Garland Marine Construction, climbs up a barge that has been placed on its side in preparation to move it on to a flatbed truck in an empty lot on U.S. 41 next to the Gordon River. The barge - which includes two steel pieces, a crane and a push boat - was pulled from the Gordon River in Naples on Thursday to be cleaned and repainted. Barges for Garland and Garland, a local dock building company, are cleaned every five years. Each steel piece of the barge weighs 30,000 pounds and the cleaning will take about one month. Lexey Swall/Staff